JavaFX links of the week, July 5

Wow, July already. Time sure is flying these days. As always, please feel free to flick me an email or a tweet to let me know of any news you want included. Let’s get on with the news!

Tor Norbye blogged about not using implicit return types in public API declarations in JavaFX, and from my perspective, copped quite an unfair bashing for doing so. He also provided a NetBeans plugin for identifying this issue, and ‘quick fixing’ it. As for the comments on the post: I personally love implicit typing, but not when it is public API, for the reasons Tor identifies. It would suck to have to type :Void for every function and specify the type of all parameters in an overridden function. The language really isn’t broken.

Eviware popped out of nowhere this week with their loadUI application for load-testing webapps. They’ve posted some videos and in general their app, built using JavaFX and Groovy, looks really impressive.